Some Critical Reflections on Issues of Yen Hui's Age of the Birth and Death
Abstract
Yan Hui why birth and death years, qualification is not coming fight off regardless; then fight regardless of the real key, mainly Lok in "Yen Hui, 32, died" or "Yan Hui about forty dead." How to solve the dispute regardless it? First, the limited history of data lack, should not then the problem leading to the "what more credible, what more primitive", but also should not be stubborn in the previous description of the law must come from "Confucius", after a description of the law must come from the "Historical Records . Confucius family "in the wrong direction; in the right direction, should be: return to or try to figure out about Yen Hui, Confucius and his words speak in other veins. In this direction under the guidance of this last tendency to accept the "Yen Hui, 32, died." However, the purpose of this article, and not in finding the Yen Hui, birth and death years do switch number, and in the view on What potential reasons to make such a "decision"; in particular, to, in this review process, try to open "understand What is Confucianism "and a new clue. Whether born about Yen Hui and what is age of death, the key disputed lay in. "Yen Hui die 32 years old 'or' Yen Hui about 40 years old extremely". Then how to solve the dispute above? First of all, because of the shortage of the historical data, should not lead the question to the wrong direction of the following again: For example, "that historical data can relatively believe or more primitive", "the last statement must have come from Kung Tzu Chiayu , the later statement and must have come from Kung Tzu Shihchia of Shih Chi ", etc.; Right direction, should return to The Analects of Confucius of the whole meaning, includes the Confucius is how to talk Yen Hui's die young, the Confucius sunset of life talks the oneself how to make the knowledge etc. Under the guide of the direction above, it was that" Yen Hui die 32 years old "that we inclined to accept this article finally. But, the purpose of this article, the accurate figure of finding out Yen Hui and born and death, but should inspect and make" the decision "on the basis of some potential reasons; Take, with inspecting so, turn on a new understanding clue on '"What is Confucianism"